Who has Served?

Army Reserve 85-91. Cannon Fire Direction Specialist...19E if my memory serves me correctly......woo, hoo. Basically, I worked in the battalion FDC for an 8 inch SP battalion. I was in an MP unit in Ocalla for the last year while ai was in law school.
 
EverTheCynic said:
US Army 2003-Present

11C OSUT/Basic Airborne at Benning
A Trp 1/17 Cav (Ft Bragg)
HHC 82nd Abn (Ft Bragg)
Afghanistan in one month
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Good luck....if any of your buddies need knives fo' FREE, let me know. i should have a few that are up to snuff within the first two months of the new year. And that goes for anyone going "over there".....not just those lunatics who jump out of perfectly good airplanes...lol. This knifemangling thing is a hobby for me and I figure you guys will put them to good use.
 
USN/USNR 1963-1985. Titless Wave. Started drawing retired pay in October. Health insurance went from $700+ a month to $460/year. Ask me how I'm liking it :).
 
Ron Hanz said:
USN/USNR 1963-1985. Titless Wave. Started drawing retired pay in October. Health insurance went from $700+ a month to $460/year. Ask me how I'm liking it :).
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And the Navy insurance actually covers illnesses.......lol
 
jdm1681, 13E would be Artillery. The 19 series was/is Armor. Also, 8 inch is all gone too. Too bad, it was a very accurate weapon!
 
you are correct sir. 13B was projo humper/cannon cocker, 13F was FO. Can't remember if 13J was Lance, Pershing 2 or MLRS...or something else...lol. I wouldn't mind the 8 inch being gone if they had adopted some form of Jerry Bull's GC45 155mm and the base bleed projo's instead of screwing around with the M198 and those RAP rounds. Same max range and less accuracy for 10 times as much money per shell. Looks like they will end up buying one anyway......but in 52 or 56 caliber. Funny how they said that they couldn't put a 45 or 52 on the Paladin....and then the dutch do it just a couple of years later....gotta love that not-invented-here syndrome.....except for the fact that Bull, a Canadian, was doig work for us when he came up with that formula for the "perfect" gun and shell combo. Now we will end up buying it from the South Africans, just like we ended up buying modular propellant after our binary liquid stuff burned up one too many Paladin and Crusader prototypes:D The fun thing about the old 8 inch was that our battalion HQ had a van for the "special weapons" which did not exist, yet I had all of the data necessary to shoot one of them in my little hand held Hewlett Packard BUCS....mini-mushroom clouds for Ivan and Mohammed...heh, heh, heh The scary part was that the entire waepon only weighed 245 lbs and if you got read of the actual shell body, the "physics package" couldn't have weighed more than 100 lbs and likely weighed less, would have probably not been much bigger than a 2 liter coke bottle and was good for at least .5 kilotons from what I have read since i got out!!!!!!!!!!!! And they were actually going to entrust me with the task of deciding where that thing would land!!!!!!! LMAO
 
USMC '00-'05 stationed in 29 palms CA for a couple years and then Beaufort SC and I spent a little time in Afghanistan.
 
US Navy 89-93
Tomcat Troubleshooter, Fighter Squadron 74, CAG 17, USS Saratoga
Gulph 1, Bosnia

US Navy Reserve 93-95 (Non-obligor)
P3 Orion Fire Control, Patrol Squadron 66
 
My son, Benjamin, has finished Army Basic and will complete his A.I.T. in early March. At that point, it's off to Europe for active duty.

One more American serves.

It's a proud thing.
 
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